How so?

What is even more telling in this land of compulsory voting is that about 15% of people required to vote refuse to -

[aap.com.au]

[lighthouse.mq.edu.au]

Both these articles identify that nearly 10% of the registered to vote population didn't do so . . . & that %age doesn't include the proportion who turned up to avoid a fine but then invalidated their count by spoiling the paper.

Also note that only 96% of the population eligible to register do so according to the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission)

[aec.gov.au]

However note that on the web site for the AEC there is no menu listing for election results & numbers voting or not in each election - see screenshot attached:

MY bad, never won any spelling bees.

@puff it's most likely your accent & how it has controlled your hearing. . . Mine results in my pronouncing "ing" as "ink"!

@FrayedBear My accent is totally fucked up living in Asia so long then adopting the Kiwi butchering of vowels, working there for 2 years. Then you have my Adelaide roots meaning the rest of Australia thinks I sound like a Pom.

@puff depending on which poms you've chosen to emulate then sounding like one may be nothing to be ashamed of. I had a mid atlantic accent until I stepped on to the quayside in Fremantle nearly 50 years ago. I then decided that I was not ashamed of my native north west of England accent.

@FrayedBear Pastie is the big one. I say "par-stie" whereas most say "pas-tie". I always counter by saying "That's what strippers wear on their nipples".

@puff isn't a par-stie where you breed & feed American Hill Billy fathers?

@puff and a nipple hider is not a pas-tie it's a "prude protector"!

@FrayedBear Pastie as in Cornish pastie, like a vege pie, sort of not.

@puff cornish pastie - my favourite when travelling - most are not very good. I can recommend Cousin Jack's Bakery in Inglewood not far from Bendigo. . . Expensive but good.

@FrayedBear Big in SA, had a lot of copper mines with a big Cornish population/influence eg Moonta on York' Peninsular. Can't get a decent pastie in the Eastern states. Or Bung Fritz. Or Mettwurst.
Heathens.
Clarendon Bakery in the Adelaide Hills are the best.

@FrayedBear If you have a Drakes they sell Balfour's pasties which are your stock standard pie warmer type in SA (and Villi's). Not the Roll's Royce but a decent pastie if you get a craving. Frozen pie section.

@puff Don't have either in W. Vic.

@puff closest I got to Adelaide for 40 years was Milang last February.